Niko Luoma

No one uses the camera like the photographer Niko Luoma. He is not interested in capturing the world in front of his lens. He uses light to create his own visual spheres. Using up to a thousand multiple exposures, he applies individual elements of colour and form to the negative, layer by layer. Meticulous calculations and geometrical skills are the necessary foundation for this.

The results are abstract photographs of impressive, colourful intensity and luminosity. This book of photos is based on the series Adaptions, which reproduces famous works by other artists. Luoma presents a fascinating visual game in which the independent charisma of the photographs acts in concert with its reverence toward Bacon, Hockney, Van Gogh, or Picasso.

With tongue in cheek, Luoma thus realises the avant-garde's desire to liberate photography from reproducing reality, allowing it to become an art.